whart
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| Going to have a dedicated line installed- What should i know to ask for? @jwolchak- I'm not sure that's true. For a residential application the iso transformer would have to be tied back to the main electrical system ground. (You cannot float the ground on the secondary, as I understand it, or ground to a different gro... | |
| Best Vinyl Cleaning Method I combine methods- vacuum cleaning and ultrasonic. Much is in the method. I prefer the point nozzle type vacuums to the wand type, but at a price. For ultrasonic, though I’ve owned the Audio Desk and still own the KL, mentioned by @cleeds -you can... | |
| Masterdisk in deadwax question There’s a modest thread on Hoffman that addresses this question. I have a few copies of this record, probably one is a Quiex, I would have to look. I’m not sure there is a "rule" and it may depend on the particular record and when it was pressed. ... | |
| Best places to find vinyl Even a visual inspection can only tell you so much- appearance of surfaces, spindle hole wear and if you spin it on a turntable at a shop, warps. Play grading is pretty variable, depending on who is doing the grading- (you may not want a seller to... | |
| Going to have a dedicated line installed- What should i know to ask for? I had a great electrical contractor in Brooklyn when I lived there- sadly, he is in prison for life. When I saw the NY Post article about it (I had moved up to the Lower Hudson Valley by that point), I told my wife, "I’m tempted to go to court as ... | |
| Best places to find vinyl Erik: I paid about 48 Euro, plus 6 E shipping from Germany for the mono reissue of Village Green pressed in 1980 in mint condition. FWIW. Still probably too much, but my notes say impeccable condition. And despite the shipping cost, still way chea... | |
| Best places to find vinyl I rarely find what I’m chasing (if I’m after a particular record) in local shops. When I lived in NY, I would canvass many, along with the record shows; now, in Austin, with a decent number of shops and a pretty large show. And back in the day, I ... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD @noromance - no doubt. But there are exceptions. The Speakers Corner reissue of Herbie Hancock's Crossings is just spectacular compared to a time capsule original Warner Green label (which is not a shabby pressing by any means). It just sparkles, ... | |
| Clean Power without the drawbacks of Conditioning Filtering. Advice? I took a look at mine - a CablePro NoiseTrapper Revelation. This is probably older than the Wiremold one? Not available any more? NoiseTrapping? I thought it was completely featureless. Oh, well. Works fine. | |
| Clean Power without the drawbacks of Conditioning Filtering. Advice? I have a high quality power strip that I bought some years ago- it was being promoted by Naim at the time (though I don't own any Naim equipment). No power switch or pilot light, IEC receptacle for incoming power so you can use a higher quality po... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD I think most of the MOV stuff is sourced from digital files, not that this is bad per se (i've heard some great reissues that aren't "all analog") but I will add this: I have been a vinyl die-hard all my life and in the early days, found digital (... | |
| A Very Strange Cover Song Check out the Finnish TV cover of YMCA. Kind of makes the Village People look tame. Whoa! | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality @erik_squires Erik-assuming that you are talking about some kind of user interface that displays a reading or some LED array signifying such problems, what kind (and cost) of test equipment (outboard) would normally be used to ascertain such things? | |
| Great Experience with Bill Thalmann @ Musical Technology (equipment repair) Yep, Bill did a bunch of work for me within the last two years- restored a Technics SP-10, did the Krebs mod and sourced and mounted it in a plinth for reasonable money; restored a pair of Quad II amps and restored a McI MX110z. I'm using all of t... | |
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? @roberjerman- I think Goldfinger was my first album purchase too! For the same reason- saw the movie in the theatre as a kid. Shirley Bassey wailing " Gold Fffff-inga!" Love it. Don’t have my copy either. Alas. |